The characters are super engaging. Even Danny McBride. The plot is cool, and has basically a 'Passengers' style cataclysmic event that triggers the series of unfortunate events to have them wake up early. Blah blah, they find a new planet, which is obviously the planet that the last movie was directing the Prometheus ship too.

The problems are 1) Too much gene splicing and science crap. I want to see a GD xenomorph, not how it was fully created. The hour explanation of it was probably too much.2) The way the virus was originally spread is crazy. It makes it

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Airborne. That's nuts

3) The scientists and crew seem very stupid. Not even the full decisions, but like just stuff in general. 3a) You go into a new planet, you step on it, open the doors, without a mask on??!??! 3b) You drink the water without testing it??!?!? - Granted neither of these played into the plot, but jesus.4) Crew basically didn't get a shit about the colony ship. 5) Why was James Franco in this?6) The planet has ZERO animal life, and they weren't worried?7) New Captain basically said he had to be super rational, but his first decision to to take this giant ass ship that they prepped for 10 years, to go to this unknown planet they studied for like 30 seconds

The plus:1) Beautttifffulllllll - the whole movie is beautiful2) David/Daniel dynamic was very cool. David is a messed up MF'er.3) Raptor albino xenomorph scene was pretty cool.4) Scene on shuttle ship was pretty cool with the crane5) People died really fast, but they still managed to make this very intense.6) Space scenes were neato.7) Answered a lot questions - even if took too long to do

cwilkins88 wrote:Source of the post5) Why was James Franco in this?7) New Captain basically said he had to be super rational, but his first decision to to take this giant ass ship that they prepped for 10 years, to go to this unknown planet they studied for like 30 seconds

Read an article with one of the writers on this movie. The original script had a much larger story for the Franco role, in which he's selected as captain over Dr Manhattan (the new captain don't know his name just know him as blue penis from the Watchmen). Basically, the company didn't want Dr Manhattan due to his religious beliefs, they wanted Franco because he was more rational and logical in decision making. Which is why Dr Manhattan over compensates when thrust into the role of the captain. Sad we won't get to see this or have it explained.

cwilkins88 wrote:Source of the post5) Why was James Franco in this?7) New Captain basically said he had to be super rational, but his first decision to to take this giant ass ship that they prepped for 10 years, to go to this unknown planet they studied for like 30 seconds

Read an article with one of the writers on this movie. The original script had a much larger story for the Franco role, in which he's selected as captain over Dr Manhattan (the new captain don't know his name just know him as blue penis from the Watchmen). Basically, the company didn't want Dr Manhattan due to his religious beliefs, they wanted Franco because he was more rational and logical in decision making. Which is why Dr Manhattan over compensates when thrust into the role of the captain. Sad we won't get to see this or have it explained.

And that's cool. But if you dont want to explain it in the movie, then don't show it at all.

cwilkins88 wrote:And that's cool. But if you dont want to explain it in the movie, then don't show it at all.

I know right... reviews I've read so far have questioned why Franco was in the movie. I always thought his being there was like Drew Barrymore in Scream, funny how she dies in the first few minutes but is given top billing.

cwilkins88 wrote:And that's cool. But if you dont want to explain it in the movie, then don't show it at all.

I know right... reviews I've read so far have questioned why Franco was in the movie. I always thought his being there was like Drew Barrymore in Scream, funny how she dies in the first few minutes but is given top billing.

Lol yeah, thats basically what it is. It builds a little bit of a story, but overall - had no impact on the movie whatsoever.

purple_hayes wrote:Source of the post I know right... reviews I've read so far have questioned why Franco was in the movie. I always thought his being there was like Drew Barrymore in Scream, funny how she dies in the first few minutes but is given top billing.